Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory and his most recent novel, Bewilderment, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.
He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I've ever read.
I'm in awe of his talent
*Oprah Winfrey*
Both touching and finely written
*Daily Telegraph*
Deftly crafted . . . packs an emotional punch
*Daily Mail*
Heartfelt . . . with fantastical digressions to other planets and a
rueful celebration of our own
*Guardian*
Powers has the rare gift of being able to deal with big ideas while
keeping you interested in the lives and emotions of his
characters
*Sebastian Faulks*
Beautiful and thoughtfully written
*Good Housekeeping*
A compelling story about love in a dying world
*Irish Independent*
It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers's message
*Sunday Times*
Powers is . . . a wizard when it comes to telling us about trees,
rivers, insects and birds
*Spectator*
Extraordinary . . . Powers's insightful, often poetic prose draws
us at once more deeply toward the infinitude of the imagination
*New York Times*
Remarkable . . . channels both the cosmic sublime and that of the
vast American outdoors
*Observer*
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